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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2015
Cap Iii B.v., Urmond, NL;
Johan Thomas Tinge, Sittard, NL;
Corinne Daguenet, Echt, NL;
Iris Verschuren, Sittard, NL;
Wilhelmus Rudolf Maria Martens, Sittard, NL;
Roeland Wilhelmus Theodorus Maria Brands, Echt, NL;
Robert Jan de Korte, Echt, NL;
CAP III B.V., Urmond, NL;
Abstract
An industrial scale continuous process for the production and recovery of cyclohexanone from phenol and hydrogen, said process comprising: hydrogenating phenol in a phenol hydrogenation reactor; separating cyclohexanone from a hydrogenated product stream in a separation and purification section [II] comprising at least 4 distillation sections; wherein at least some of the reaction heat produced in the phenol hydrogenation reaction section [I] is applied for the production of steam; and wherein the molar ratio of cyclohexanone to phenol that is charged to said phenol hydrogenation reactor is from 0.02 to 0.10; and/or wherein the molar ratio of cyclohexanol to phenol that is charged to said phenol hydrogenation reactor is from 0.001 to 0.10.